Curated Music News

Monday through Friday I curate the music news that I find interesting (usually as an excuse to share more links to great music).

I also do Spotify playlists every Tuesday, this week's playlist is called the "Gold-Plated Alternative Truth" Playlist and you can listen to it by clicking HERE.

Pinegrove Continues to Resist Through Charity

Earlier I wrote about how the band Pinegrove decided, after the election, to donate all of their album sales on Bandcamp to Planned Parenthood. So, as a result of this campaign, Pinegrove raised over $21,000 for Planned Parenthood (which is pretty darn impressive).

Now, they have released a new live EP and have decided to continue to allow people to "name their own price" but now, all the proceeds from all of their sales on Bandcamp will be donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Here is the link to that new campaign:

If you don't know Wire, they were and are a revolutionary band in many ways, here is their first album "Pink Flag" (but you should also check out "154" and "Chairs Missing" as well - at the very least - not to mention their album from last year "Nocturnal Koreans").

RIP Jaki Liebezeit, Drummer of the legendary German band CAN

Last week, we lost Nigerian funk legend William Onyeabor. If you missed my tribute, you can read it HERE.